Insect diet helped early humans build bigger brains, study suggests
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Figuring out how to survive on a lean-season diet of hard-to-reach ants, slugs and other bugs may have spurred the development of bigger brains and higher-level cognitive functions in the ancestors of humans and other primates, suggests research from Washington University in St. Louis.